The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-07-15

TEE Judge Of the United States Circuit
Court ct. Portland, Ora, has authorized .
receiver to charge more for short than
fer . Tong haul
SAnDrzAx, the Apache who was found
Guilty of murder in the first degree Of the
killing Of Lieutenant Mott, ct San Carlos,
March Il and sentenced to imprisonment
for life, has been sent to the prison at Ches-
ter, Ill
The American party closed three days
secret session ct Ban Francisco ON the eth.
The platform declared against various
'.isms," theories and practices supposed 70
be inimical to what are thought to b M
tive interests.
TIE gasoline stove-workers Of America
met in annual convention in Cleveland, O.,
on the 9Th.
OvER coo music teachers attended the
national conventions meetings ut Indian
apolis, Ind, ON the 9th.
A NUMBER Of murdered bodies Of China
men have been floating down the Snake
river in Idaho lately. 1t was generally
thought they had been robbed and murdered
by white men, though some thought 1t was
the work of Indians.
WoRNs are destroying the cranberry
vines in and about Berlin, Wis, and it is
feared that the vines will be entirely ruined.
The Pacific Investigating Committee I'M
earthed some sensational facts at Leaven-
worth on the 9Th, the principal being list
Of prominent persons bribed in the early
days Of the Union Pacific.
DIR. NORTH, the physician in charge Of the
Wabash, st. Louis T. Pacific Railway Hos
pital at Peru, Ind, was shot and fatally
wounded recently by John Christianson.
The man was beating his daughter at the
time, when North attempted to stop his
brutality, with the above result. The shoot
ing incensed the people, who took Christian
son out of Jail and hanged him to bridge.
The Utah constitutional convention COM
pleted and adopted its constitution on the
9TH. The planks regarding bigamy and po-
lygamy, representation for minority and
separation Of Church and State were adopt
ed with others. The vote Of the people will
be taken in August
The President, In q lie tier to Mayor
Francis, of st. Louis, says that he will be
unable to visit that city during the Grand
Army encampment next fall. His reasons,
briefly expressed, are that his presence
might lead to discord and cause feelings
retarding the fraternal sentiments at pres
ent increasing between the North and the
South.
EIGHT Italians were drowned in the Stur-
geon river mines at Metropolitan, Mich, on
the 7th. the river breaking into the works.
PERHAM, Mimi, reports the country alive
with grasshoppers and every thing being
eaten up.
ENGINEER JOHN ECorr and Fireman
James Hucklsh were fatally injured by the
explosion Of boiler in the Excelsior mine
at Oskaloosa, Iowa, the other day. The
cause Of the explosion was unknown.
The Chronicle, Of San Francisco, recently
published two pages of letters and afiida-
Wits accusing H. F. Beecher, son Of the late
Henry Ward Beecher, Of extensive frauds
on the Government while acting as collector
of the port of Townsend, w. T. There
were also sensational charges Of Beecher
being concerned in the murder of A. L.
Blake to prevent the latter divulglng
Beecher's dishonesty.
BEN HOLIDAY, the famous pony express
and overland stage man, died at Portland,
Ore, on the sth from paralysis.
TA4 SOUTHs
Hon. DUNCAN F FENNER, president of
the Louisiana Jockey Club, president of
the Sugar Planters Association, and iden-
titled with many enterprises in Louisiana,
died suddenly at New Orleans on the Sd.
Mr.. Kenner was formerly q member of
Congress and Confederate Commissioner
to France, and also one Of the Tariff Com
missioners appointed by President Arthur.
The old National Theater at New Orleans,
known as Werlein Hall, was destroyed by
fire recently.
SAM JONES instituted q new departure
the other evening at Baltimore by charging
a fifty-cent admission to his evangelical
meetings.
The citizens Of Helena, Ark, have sub
scribed $4,000 to be used in conjunction
with $4,000 allowed by the Mississippi
Commission for the protection of the lsvees
along the river front at that place.
THE first deadly encounter over the pro-
hibition issue, now convulsing all sections
Of Texas, occurred recently at Sunset.
John Glass, Prohibitionist, shot and
killed Sam Trammel, an anti. They quar-
relied over the canvass and made friends.
Later on they met, with the above result.
B. F. REEDER, a miller of Danville, KY,
was bitten on the nose by rat day or
two ago He lies in critical condition,
erysipelas having set in.
THOMAS A. CARTER, Of Ozark, Ark. has
been appointed appraiser Of the right Of
way of the Kansas & Arkansas railway
through the Indian Territory.
TEN new cases Of and three deaths from
yellow fever were reported at Key West,
Fla, on the 5th.
In 1873 while J. Samp Swift was sheriff
Of Galloway County, KY, his accounts were
5000 short He thought deputy had
robbed him. In making good the deficiency
it bankrupted him, and he has since sup
ported his family as day laborer. Re-
asylum, and In her rawlings told Of money
hid IN the smoke house. Investigation re.
vealed S, 200 in greenbacks. It is thought
she concealed the money in one Of her at
tacks.
ADvICEs from Jonesboro, Ark, say that
. man got OF the west bound train at that
place, and, walking up to . small crowd Of
people, drew q revolver and fired three
shots, killing one man and fatally wound
ing another. The man was believed to be
an escaped lunatic.
A GANG Of eight men recently attempted
to rob the through Kansas express on the
Santa Fe near Pendleton, Tex. A posse on
board opened fire and one Of the robbers
fell. He was carried OF by his companions,
who escaped.
WILLIAM BOWEN and Miss Eunice Kin
ney, of Palestine, Tex, were struck by
while under tree the other even
ing and both killed.
The old National Theater at New Orleans
was burned some days ago. Recently some
men were engaged in removing the debris,
when q windstorm blew down one Of the
walls, injuring nine Of the men, three
probably fatally.